OK, that’s not entirely true. They can — they’re just so blinded by their own narratives that they keep tripping over themselves.

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Over the past few days, the media he beclowned themselves by pushing a now-debunked story about Covington Catholic High School. Teenagers from that Kentucky school, as you probably know by now, were accused of racism and mocking a Native American man after one of the boys — gasp! — smiled while wearing a pro-Trump hat.

When numerous videos emerged, it quickly became clear that many of the breathless headlines were not just wrong, but bordered on slander. Nearly all of the core claims were false: The Catholic boys didn’t surround the Native American man, and actually tried to distance themselves from a hateful racist group that was nearby.

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But those facts didn’t stop leftists from flying into a frenzy, with some well-known names trying to ruin the kids’ lives with everything from suspensions to actual death threats. The school was forced to close in the face of those security risks.

Then the narrative fell apart even further. After countless outlets reported that the native man was a Vietnam veteran, facts came out showing that this wasn’t true. Not only had he never been to Vietnam, he was a known political activist who seemed to revel in mixing it up with protesters.

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There’s more. The left scrambled to pretend that Covington boys using a common basketball hand signal was racist, and was quickly embarrassed by numerous photos of professional players — many of them black — doing the exact same thing during games.

You’d think that after all those eggs in their faces, the media would take a deep breath and learn their lesson. But no.